Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements about traits is false?
A) A trait may be considered ancestral or derived, depending on the point of reference.
B) Homoplastic traits can arise by convergent evolution.
C) Derived traits differ from their ancestral forms.
D) Synapomorphies are shared ancestral traits.
E) Traits may be lost by evolutionary reversal.
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